The first black footballer to play for Wales
In this blog – a version of which first appeared on Parallel Cymru – Matthew Jones remembers the first ever black footballer to wear the red shirt of Wales. Like so many, I had a great...
Tagged: Wales football team
Podcast / Podlediad #76: Denmark and Albania preview / Rhagolwg o Ddenmarc ac Albania
In this podcast Russell, Daniel and Gareth snuggle up to Joe Ledley; look ahead to the Denmark and Albania matches; assess Giggs’ tenure to date; and get all nostalgic for the Anglo-Italian and Watney...
Podcast / Podlediad #73: The ‘Booting’: Ireland and Denmark reviewed
In this podcast Gareth, Russell and Leon look back at Wales’s opening Nations League games against Ireland and Denmark; encouraging performances by the likes of Chris Mepham and Ethan Ampadu; and they cast their minds towards October’s...
Best Sheffield Wednesday Welsh XI
Having previously featured guest blogs selecting all-time Preston North End and Ipswich Town Welsh XIs, it’s now Richard Taylor‘s turn, whose research took him deep into the annals of the history of Sheffield Wednesday FC,...
The Balkan Complex
Wales will round off their 2016-17 season by heading to Belgrade in Serbia on 11 June. In 26 games against Yugoslavia and its composite independent nations dating back to 1953 Wales have triumphed only...
Podcast / Podlediad #51: Ireland away / Iwerddon oddi gartre
In this podcast Daniel, Gareth and Russell welcome Huw Davies from Four Four Two magazine to join them to discuss the hugely important game versus Ireland. Conor Kelly from the The Final Third podcast also joins...
Wales and Scotland: the unrequited rivalry?
In this blog – originally featured in a Scotland-themed issue of The Football Pink entitled Our Thing – Russell Todd looks back at what has fueled Wales’s – largely unrequited? – rivalry with Scotland. The rivalry between...
Podcast / Podlediad #42: Kappa chat with @WalesMatchWorn
In podcast #25 Simon ‘Shakey’ Shakeshaft aka @WalesMatchWorn joined us to look back at Wales shirts from the 1970s and wrote an accompanying blog about the ‘Forgotten Campaign’ for Euro 1976 when Wales wore four different kits in a single campaign....
